SailingStone Capital Partners LLC

SailingStone Capital Partners LLC is an institutional investment management firm based out of San Francisco, California. The company was established in 2014 by a team of investment analysis all of whom had prior experience at RS Global Natural Resource. The founding team of partners includes James Bruce, Mackenzie Davis, Martin Engel, Brian Lively, and Ken Settles, all of whom are still with the company today as partners and investment analysis. The firm currently has 18 employees of which 5 are investment professionals. SailingStone Capital Partners is employee owned with the actual company itself operating under its holdings company SailingStone GP LP. The company manages concentrated, long only separate accounts for institutional investors and focuses on generating returns in the global natural resource sector. SailingStone Capital Partners’s investment philosophy focuses on companies that have the ability to compound economic value for shareholders, striving to generate “attractive through-cycle returns across a broad array of commodities in a concentrated, liquid investment strategy,” studying the projects of companies through site visits and analysis, focusing on minimizing the permanent loss of capital, emphasizing company specific value creation to take advantage of market volatility, and conducting counter cyclical investments in concentrated portfolios. The company’s assets are split between the energy sector, which makes up approximately two thirds of its total asset allocations, and materials sector, which makes up the remaining third of its allocations. SailingStone Capital Partners’s top 10 holdings alone makes up over three quarters of its total holdings and, comparatively, the firm has a low turnover rate of 5.5%. SailingStone Capital Partners holds over $7.2 billion in total assets under management spread across 74 accounts, all of which are discretionary. As the company is still in its very early years, its total number of accounts and total assets under management are both somewhat volatile.